Discourse Analysis of Skill-Based Education Policy in Iran's Higher Education System

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1 Postdoctoral research, Department of Management and Entrepreneurship, Faculty of Economics and Accounting, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran

2 Associate Professor, Department of Management and Entrepreneurship, Faculty of Social Sciences, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran

10.22059/jppolicy.2026.404157.2806

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The present study was conducted with the aim of analyzing the discourse order governing the skill-based higher education system of the Islamic Republic of Iran and how educational policies are articulated in this discourse. Educational policies within this discourse are divided into three time periods from 1978 to the present, in which in each period, the skill-based higher education discourse has attempted to establish its meaning with the help of relevant educational policies. The articulation of the aforementioned discourse was analyzed and examined in the historical context of the challenges of educational-developmental policymaking. The findings of the study show that the skill-based higher education discourse in the Islamic Republic of Iran is articulated around the central signifier of “applied Islamic education” and signifiers such as “resistance skills”, “negation of non-practical knowledge”, “skill privatization”, “entrepreneurial university” and “practical cultural confrontation” are organized around this central signifier.

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Iranian Journal of Public Policy

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Available Online from 31 January 2026

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